Here's a co-inky-dink for ya'. My name is also Robert Whitfield and I was in class 89-1. I flew Hueys, Cobras, Apaches, and Longbows. Served 3 tours in Iraq. How's it going, Bob?
I am a former army fixed wing aviator who flew RU21s and OV1s during thirty months in country, mostly monitoring traffic on the trail. Had many close calls related to ground fire, anti aircraft fire, SA2 and SA7 missiles but scraped by unscathed.
My Dad was in the 114th Army Aviation Company in Vinh Long 68-69. He told me some amazing stories. I have so much respect and admiration for these brave men.My father passed last Feb and I miss him and his stories very much. I wish I had come across this video before he passed as he would have loved to see it. God Bless.
I was assigned to D Company, 46th Engr BN in 70-71. Was in Phu Loi the last half of the tour. Phu Loi is just a skip, hop, and jump to Vinh Long. I patched road from Phu Loi to Vinh Long. Plus, was working in Lai Khe (Northwest of Phu Loi) and got my 1st ride on a Helicopter on a flight Lai Khe to Phu Loi with and a Huey from the 118th. Small world!
I am honored to say that I flew with Douglas Womack years after Vietnam was over. One of the best pilots I ever flew with I was a crew chief,flew and served with many Vietnam Veterans . I learned so very much from all of this brave men I had the Honor to serve with.
I was 19 in IERW, class 81-45 Royal Blue Flight, and all our TAC Officers were Vietnam Veterans. I didn’t realize what they went through until much later in my 21 year career. Students didn’t really make small talk with them but I do remember the TACs mention Lam Son 719, and the losses they experienced. I wish I could go back and and just listen closer. I’m grateful for them all
Thank you. This is the most accurate story of us (Cobra and Slick 1971) I have ever seen. This is what I wish I could tell people about but you told them. Thanks.
The amazing thing was the amount of Flights & Sorties Vietnam Era Pilots flew is mindboggling! My hat is off to all of them. I Thank Them for Their Service, Sacrifice & Bravery!
I flew 13 months in Vietnam as a Door Gunner, Crew Chief, and Flight Engineer on CH-47A's 1967-68. Forced down on 23 Oct 1967 rescued by A Troop !/9 Cav before we were policed up by the NVA. Another close call in the Battle of Dak To. I look back and realize how fortunate we were. The real heroes were the LOH OH-6 pilots and Crew Chiefs. They had real balls low level drawing fire for gunships waiting above.
Is the Exec Producer, Robert Mason, the person I think it is? I am a Vietnam Vet and have nothing but admiration for these men. I thank them all for their service.
Dont forget that the Army had Planes during the Vietnam war , JOV-1/ OV-1 Mohawk and CV-2 Caribou`s, the Mohawks played a important role in the first time of the Airmobile Concept/Div. in Vietnam
Harris Howard taught me how to fly in a TH-55. He finally asked me if I was ready to solo… I told him heck yeah… get out. Then I did three traffic patterns… takeoffs and landings at a little stage field. That was the most fun I had with my pants on.
I had the joy and honor to work with Mr. Jon Beckenhauer off and on over a 15 year period. Our veterans are amongst the best and most honorable men I have ever had the pleasure to know.
I worked with a guy name Bernie that’s was a crew chief dust off out of chu li dude was shot 3 times and saved a bunch of marines straight up super hero you can’t say enough about these men and women ! Thank you 🙏 so so much! Bernie you guys came back too a bunch of crap in the states you did not deserve or any of the troops you’re never forgotten and always loved !!!
The United States Army produces the finest rotary wing aircraft pilots in the world, in Vietnam they wrote the book on helicopter warfare just like the Germans had writtten the book on mobile mechanized warfare 25 years before, I read the book Chickenhawk in 1984 when I was in the Army and always knew afterwards that if I ever had to rely on an Army helicopter I wouldn't be let down, hats off to Robert Mason and all those who have flown after him.
What a great project! All honor and gratitude to these men! Thank you for your service to our country and the people of South East Asia. Welcome home!!!
One day while in Vietnam I heard the Commanding General of the 1st Cav tell a congressman that uncommon valor was a daily trait of every helicopter pilot in his division. "I would need at least a thousand clerk typist to process valor awards just for my pilots"
What those guys had to go through dealing with the anticipation of flying into a hot LZ is mind numbing. The anxiety and fear mixed with the overwhelming desire to get there to assist the infantry boys was the worst part of it all I gather. They all went to hell so my generation didn't have to. I have the highest respect and gratitude to each and every one of them who sacrificed so much in the Wars of this world.
They never really made a good Movie about The Pilots of Vietnam's AirCav. They have featured many Huey's in movies but nothing to express what these pilots went through. Huey's will never be forgotten. ~S~ Salute to all of these brave men.
That's right. Id love to see a movie from the perspective of the army aviators but for people without a passion for aviation it may be boring. I think it would be a total winner.
@@adznz11 Dang, I never got this notification. UA-cam sure become a sht hole. If they don't like you, they trash your channel. I just happened to click around and watched again. I sure agree with you totally. It would be fascinating to watch. We just need the right people to get involved. Hope you're doing well. Rough time we're in. Joe the YOYO, has America in knots.
Serpent: Thank you for your ‘Nam chopper service that you can’t discuss, but did anyway. You are, and always will be, my biggest hero. If our nation REALLY knew the dedication and guts it took to do your mission, they would start passing out MOH’s to all of you. Thank you even more for coming home and being a brick in Savannah. (If you know, you know.) And most of all, thank you for being one of the finest humans I have ever met and one of my best friends.
Who he doesn't mention at the beginning is there are two Gunners the crew chief on the left and a gunner on the right and they sit in front of a M60 machine gun and they are who protects that side of the helicopter it's it's unusual that they do not know it's not even mentioned ask the pilots
Despite all the dangers I think I would rather have been a helicopter pilot than a foot soldier during the Vietnam war. No matter how dangerous it was it still beats hiking through the dense snake infested jungles with 40°C heat and extreme humidity, not to mention the damn booby traps.
If any one knew My Uncle Sgt Coley Leon Andrews Killed Second tour. 12/19/66 Crew Chief Casper Aviation Platoon 173rd ABN. Sky Soldiers. Completed first Tour. Volunteer for 2nd. I would Love to Hear From Anyone who may have known or know anything about this or this Unit or where they were Fighting. Anything. Larry
All the respect in the world for the Pilots. Just remember other than the Cobra all other ships, Guns, Slicks and Dust off had two guys in the back, and probably 20-30 guys in maintenance that kept the helicopters flying. Also the video did not work for me.
WRONG HARRISON! The French Army and Air Force used helos in combat during the Algerian War 1954-62. Many of their tactics were adopted by the US Army in Vietnam.
I'm guessing medivac pilots eventually started doing their jobs later in the war....my father said they wouldn't fly into hot lzs early in the war....that slick pilots had to do their jobs as well as their own
Watching this video makes me swell with pride to know these men, fellow Americans, are part of the reason we are still a free people. If not for them and so many others like them, America wouldnt be what it is today. And it all started with the American Revolution. Freedom is truly not free. Only shame is, this war was a run by politicians. And their hands will forever be awash with the blood of almost 60,000 young men. How dare the bastards get by with such criminal acts. 60,000
@@robertchaison4040 it's so cool to talk with them in person, my flight instructor had been 2 tours flying a huey, he actually used popcorn popping to describe the sound being openned up on. When we flew together, i'd look over at him with his aviator glasses, it was easy to picture him in a huey. He was cool, and when in the states he ended up flying a corporate jet.
@Sir Wojak IV The US Army first used helicopters in the South Pacific towards the end of WW2 including mounting the first helicopter combat rescue operation in history during April of 1944 when a US Army R-4 helicoptor pilot rescued an Army pilot and 3 British soldiers that were on his plane after they had been shot down in Burma.
DJSbros exactly, they used them in WWI but some jackass forgot to order them in time for WWII, so signed an addendum in the Geneva convention whereby everyone agreed not to use Helicopters in WWII, so they saved them for Vietnam
I am a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and we have two honorary members. The Army pilot who made the first medevac during WW-2 in Burma and a Soviet helicopter pilot who Flew missions dropping lead on the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor as it was melting down to try to prevent an explosion knowing full well he would die from radiation poisoning.
If people came to our country, and were all amognst us comparatively, how horrible would it be, having to mash a crazy medium ground area between cities and country, probably have the same problems right here real quick in all there ways over there, then have to do more in that they would mix it up with us our way's in our homeland over here. I mean, Jesus it could be such a zoo. We have to be able to isolate like these fires, and disasters. As soon as they infiltrate were going to be hurting units again. Marshal law must work from the front line back and the back line, homes, line front. I could see the whole disorganization of getting our civilian forces (police, etc) all mixed up in crossfires. Get us inoperable, or where its all of those lame idoms--- we were taken by idoms, not idealisms. To much to soon, to much to late, better late than never, told you so, I knew it, so what, what problems, not me, us you him, her, etc. Its not our problems, wishing, taking forever, took so long, whats the problem, when, hurry, all the sayings and things just grind us to pieces you know, just sold with the beef market- Our enemies devour us here. Then we get these attacks that are to small and not powerful enough, we just get countered to hell. Always not enough you know, where were effective its just like football, and this big Hell No (2), thing, a bunch of everything we got thrown at the enemies forces, garbage trucks, carbombs, everything you could think of for a bunch of our ho-ya guys, Crazy, somehow it looks like its going to be more of a nuclear, type problem if so right, Bio, or something, Our Oceans fail us in keeping the enemy forces away... Our boarders cannot be secured, that would suck huh? Im probably wrong though so whatever.
I'm reading the book chicken hawk and my god those Sargent's were bastards and the civilian flight instructors were not much better Being made a leader of a small group men and taking them to the mess seems easy right, wrong, not when you have NCOs blocking the route while shouting at you. This video seems to be taken word for word from that book The things I love from the US... M1 garand, the jeep, p51 and the Huey
Actually our civilian primary and military advanced flight training instructors were the best. In fact my civilian flight instructor saved my life not only when learning to hover but by teaching high speed low level quick stops which served me well when as a new solo student pilot I was faced with a fast moving thunderstorm and elected to land off field rather than get lost somewhere over Texas. In the landing toward the storm cell, suddenly of course the wind reversed into a tail wind and I was suddenly eye level with a fence with the skids in the tall grass doing about 50 knots. I did a quick stop over the fence, landed on the other side, shut down and tied the blades and immediately got drenched. He’d saved my life and their training many times after that. The instructors were the best!
I was wondering if that was him lol nice, he's admired by many for being one of the best pilots. No lie; not anything to do with Han Solo, he is a great pilot.
Thanks for telling our story. I graduated Class 67-1. I was 19. Served 2 tours in Vietnam, a place of beauty and sorrow.
Robert Whitfield respect sir
Just came across this and also appreciated the telling of "our story". Paul Hart, 66-23/67-1, C/1/9, 1st Cav. 67/68
WELCOME TO AMERICA AGAIN (Snapshots of Vietnam) ua-cam.com/video/-HpTmH-nkhY/v-deo.html
Here's a co-inky-dink for ya'. My name is also Robert Whitfield and I was in class 89-1. I flew Hueys, Cobras, Apaches, and Longbows. Served 3 tours in Iraq. How's it going, Bob?
I am a former army fixed wing aviator who flew RU21s and OV1s during thirty months in country, mostly monitoring traffic on the trail. Had many close calls related to ground fire, anti aircraft fire, SA2 and SA7 missiles but scraped by unscathed.
My Dad was in the 114th Army Aviation Company in Vinh Long 68-69. He told me some amazing stories. I have so much respect and admiration for these brave men.My father passed last Feb and I miss him and his stories very much. I wish I had come across this video before he passed as he would have loved to see it. God Bless.
My dad went to Vietnam the first time around Dec 68. He was in the 1st Cav. He passed away in 2017. The war never left him.
I was assigned to D Company, 46th Engr BN in 70-71. Was in Phu Loi the last half of the tour. Phu Loi is just a skip, hop, and jump to Vinh Long. I patched road from Phu Loi to Vinh Long. Plus, was working in Lai Khe (Northwest of Phu Loi) and got my 1st ride on a Helicopter on a flight Lai Khe to Phu Loi with and a Huey from the 118th. Small world!
FUCK AMERICA , FUCK NATO !
Thanks for Helicopters Pilot 🚁 toke me from Tam Ky to Bệnh Viện Duy Tân Đà Nẵng
When i got Wounded on April 1971..
I am honored to say that I flew with Douglas Womack years after Vietnam was over. One of the best pilots I ever flew with I was a crew chief,flew and served with many Vietnam Veterans . I learned so very much from all of this brave men I had the Honor to serve with.
I was 19 in IERW, class 81-45 Royal Blue Flight, and all our TAC Officers were Vietnam Veterans. I didn’t realize what they went through until much later in my 21 year career. Students didn’t really make small talk with them but I do remember the TACs mention Lam Son 719, and the losses they experienced. I wish I could go back and and just listen closer. I’m grateful for them all
I just can't get enough of these stories.. The BRAVERY of these men,,,,,, chokes me up. Welcome Home God bless you ALL.......
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR AGES. Without looking like a 110% nutcase. Thank you.
Dad flew the Loach with 53th Field Artillery Aviation Group. No cobras or AC guns. Just a radio. Man. Thank you guys for everything!
Thanks fir the video - brings back many memories. Mike (161st Pelicans/Scorpions) 243rd (Freight Trains)
Mike respect sir
Thank you. This is the most accurate story of us (Cobra and Slick 1971) I have ever seen. This is what I wish I could tell people about but you told them. Thanks.
The amazing thing was the amount of Flights & Sorties Vietnam Era Pilots flew is mindboggling! My hat is off to all of them. I Thank Them for Their Service, Sacrifice & Bravery!
I flew 13 months in Vietnam as a Door Gunner, Crew Chief, and Flight Engineer on CH-47A's 1967-68. Forced down on 23 Oct 1967 rescued by A Troop !/9 Cav before we were policed up by the NVA. Another close call in the Battle of Dak To. I look back and realize how fortunate we were. The real heroes were the LOH OH-6 pilots and Crew Chiefs. They had real balls low level drawing fire for gunships waiting above.
Is the Exec Producer, Robert Mason, the person I think it is? I am a Vietnam Vet and have nothing but admiration for these men.
I thank them all for their service.
Gotta be that old Chicken Hawk. A true Legend.
yes, @@travellingsoldier5018
Dont forget that the Army had Planes during the Vietnam war , JOV-1/ OV-1 Mohawk and CV-2 Caribou`s, the Mohawks played a important role in the first time of the Airmobile Concept/Div. in Vietnam
I flew the Army Bird-dog 300 hours over Laos(1970) and on my second tour the YO-3 (400 hours) over North Vietnam,
Harris Howard taught me how to fly in a TH-55. He finally asked me if I was ready to solo… I told him heck yeah… get out. Then I did three traffic patterns… takeoffs and landings at a little stage field. That was the most fun I had with my pants on.
I had the joy and honor to work with Mr. Jon Beckenhauer off and on over a 15 year period. Our veterans are amongst the best and most honorable men I have ever had the pleasure to know.
FUCK AMERICA , FUCK NATO !
Outstanding those guys are my heroes forever
Thank you I graduated 67-25. 68-3 flew with the. 11th Cav 68-69 I too was 19
My dad, CW2 Ronald Halfhill graduated Primary at Ft Wolters class 68-25 1968.
@@johngraysneck9613 Thank you. Dad passed away Jan 17th 2017. I always felt a part of him never left Vietnam. He was my hero.
@@johngraysneck9613 I just pulled out your class photo. There you are on the second row.
Respect gentlemen. True warriors!
FUCK AMERICA , FUCK NATO !
Great men.
I worked with a guy name Bernie that’s was a crew chief dust off out of chu li dude was shot 3 times and saved a bunch of marines straight up super hero you can’t say enough about these men and women ! Thank you 🙏 so so much! Bernie you guys came back too a bunch of crap in the states you did not deserve or any of the troops you’re never forgotten and always loved !!!
Great job! Great video thanks!
Really would have loved to here from the man himself Bob Mason.
Me too
The United States Army produces the finest rotary wing aircraft pilots in the world, in Vietnam they wrote the book on helicopter warfare just like the Germans had writtten the book on mobile mechanized warfare 25 years before, I read the book Chickenhawk in 1984 when I was in the Army and always knew afterwards that if I ever had to rely on an Army helicopter I wouldn't be let down, hats off to Robert Mason and all those who have flown after him.
What a great project! All honor and gratitude to these men! Thank you for your service to our country and the people of South East Asia. Welcome home!!!
FUCK AMERICA , FUCK NATO !
the people of South East Asia HATE YOU !
excellent. thanks for uploading!
One day while in Vietnam I heard the Commanding General of the 1st Cav tell a congressman that uncommon valor was a daily trait of every helicopter pilot in his division. "I would need at least a thousand clerk typist to process valor awards just for my pilots"
What those guys had to go through dealing with the anticipation of flying into a hot LZ is mind numbing. The anxiety and fear mixed with the overwhelming desire to get there to assist the infantry boys was the worst part of it all I gather. They all went to hell so my generation didn't have to. I have the highest respect and gratitude to each and every one of them who sacrificed so much in the Wars of this world.
Excellent video! Thank you veterans!
THANK YOU !
They never really made a good Movie about The Pilots of Vietnam's AirCav. They have featured many Huey's in movies but nothing to express what these pilots went through. Huey's will never be forgotten. ~S~ Salute to all of these brave men.
That's right. Id love to see a movie from the perspective of the army aviators but for people without a passion for aviation it may be boring. I think it would be a total winner.
@@adznz11
Dang, I never got this notification. UA-cam sure become a sht hole. If they don't like you, they trash your channel. I just happened to click around and watched again. I sure agree with you totally. It would be fascinating to watch. We just need the right people to get involved.
Hope you're doing well. Rough time we're in. Joe the YOYO, has America in knots.
Great stories and thank you for your service, God bless the USA
I just realized who was the executive producer the chickenhawk himself dang
great stories
Serpent: Thank you for your ‘Nam chopper service that you can’t discuss, but did anyway. You are, and always will be, my biggest hero.
If our nation REALLY knew the dedication and guts it took to do your mission, they would start passing out MOH’s to all of you.
Thank you even more for coming home and being a brick in Savannah. (If you know, you know.)
And most of all, thank you for being one of the finest humans I have ever met and one of my best friends.
Thank you William Reeder.
Thanks
That Jerry Crews is as good as they come. He is a hero in my eyes.
The best job I have ever had was being a crew chief on a CH 46 in combat.
Our job was to support our comrades on the ground.
Semper fi to all services
Amen.
Who he doesn't mention at the beginning is there are two Gunners the crew chief on the left and a gunner on the right and they sit in front of a M60 machine gun and they are who protects that side of the helicopter it's it's unusual that they do not know it's not even mentioned ask the pilots
I'd recommend the free PC tool Avidemux as if cut on a key frame it doesn't need to recode
Anybody else realize that's Harrison Ford as narrarator?
Good people😊
My buddy was an Army slick pilot.
RIP Sky Pilot.
God Bless you Sky Pilots.
I can barely hear the audio; literally a whisper at max volume! Increase recorded levels, please!
It must be your setup, I'm running bluetooth headphones at 75% volume fine
Despite all the dangers I think I would rather have been a helicopter pilot than a foot soldier during the Vietnam war. No matter how dangerous it was it still beats hiking through the dense snake infested jungles with 40°C heat and extreme humidity, not to mention the damn booby traps.
Lost a high school classmate who was a helicopter pilot CWO John Traver
If any one knew My Uncle Sgt Coley Leon Andrews Killed Second tour. 12/19/66 Crew Chief Casper Aviation Platoon 173rd ABN. Sky Soldiers. Completed first Tour. Volunteer for 2nd. I would Love to Hear From Anyone who may have known or know anything about this or this Unit or where they were Fighting. Anything.
Larry
RESPECT
2:00 Just casual Harrison Ford out’ve nowhere
You never burnt sewage, pilot. Not "We".
Joined the army 40 years too late
Be glad.
Executive producer Robert Mason do your self a favour and read chicken hawk
All the respect in the world for the Pilots. Just remember other than the Cobra all other ships, Guns, Slicks and Dust off had two guys in the back, and probably 20-30 guys in maintenance that kept the helicopters flying. Also the video did not work for me.
Skip ahead to 1:10, the video starts late
Ford does not look happy to be there.
In with unit did you serve in Vietnam mr. ford. -
Begins at 0.44sec.
Thanks for all of those who fought communism everywhere, thank all the vets and god bless america. From Brazil 🇺🇸🇧🇷
WRONG HARRISON! The French Army and Air Force used helos in combat during the Algerian War 1954-62. Many of their tactics were adopted by the US Army in Vietnam.
calm down
JEEZE Harrson, its turbine and not turbin
As An Active member of Lancer tactical shotgun Pilot , I crapped my pants on every Flight OPPS ♦️♦️♦️‼️
I'm guessing medivac pilots eventually started doing their jobs later in the war....my father said they wouldn't fly into hot lzs early in the war....that slick pilots had to do their jobs as well as their own
It's one thing flying into a hot LZ with 2 gunners on each side and something entirely different to fly into a hot LZ with a naked chopper.
Watching this video makes me swell with pride to know these men, fellow Americans, are part of the reason we are still a free people. If not for them and so many others like them, America wouldnt be what it is today. And it all started with the American Revolution.
Freedom is truly not free.
Only shame is, this war was a run by politicians. And their hands will forever be awash with the blood of almost 60,000 young men.
How dare the bastards get by with such criminal acts. 60,000
2:54 then the Americans formated it and later a new operating system was installed
Uhmm? They made something quite interesting rather boring. We Americans did it again! I was a Warrant pilot via class 68-27.
:-) 67-501/67-21 RIP my many Classmates
I thought it was quite gripping. Harrison was awfully low-energy, but after his introduction, those were some seriously interesting stories.
@@robertchaison4040 it's so cool to talk with them in person, my flight instructor had been 2 tours flying a huey, he actually used popcorn popping to describe the sound being openned up on. When we flew together, i'd look over at him with his aviator glasses, it was easy to picture him in a huey. He was cool, and when in the states he ended up flying a corporate jet.
My dad graduated from class 68-25. CW2 Ron Halfhill.
Holy shit, is that Harrison fucking ford? Why tf haven't I seen this before? I'll I do is watch Vietnam documentaries lol
Yeah I was 19 r-warren sworn officers were 1920
Holy fuck i didn't expect Indiana Jones narrated this shit XD I died.
umm...that is Han Solo...
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Helicopters werent used in WW2...
@Sir Wojak IV
The US Army first used helicopters in the South Pacific towards the end of WW2 including mounting the first helicopter combat rescue operation in history during April of 1944 when a US Army R-4 helicoptor pilot rescued an Army pilot and 3 British soldiers that were on his plane after they had been shot down in Burma.
DJSbros exactly, they used them in WWI but some jackass forgot to order them in time for WWII, so signed an addendum in the Geneva convention whereby everyone agreed not to use Helicopters in WWII, so they saved them for Vietnam
I am a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and we have two honorary members. The Army pilot who made the first medevac during WW-2 in Burma and a Soviet helicopter pilot who Flew missions dropping lead on the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor as it was melting down to try to prevent an explosion knowing full well he would die from radiation poisoning.
Anybody know batman fixit
If people came to our country, and were all amognst us comparatively, how horrible would it be, having to mash a crazy medium ground area between cities and country, probably have the same problems right here real quick in all there ways over there, then have to do more in that they would mix it up with us our way's in our homeland over here. I mean, Jesus it could be such a zoo. We have to be able to isolate like these fires, and disasters. As soon as they infiltrate were going to be hurting units again. Marshal law must work from the front line back and the back line, homes, line front. I could see the whole disorganization of getting our civilian forces (police, etc) all mixed up in crossfires. Get us inoperable, or where its all of those lame idoms--- we were taken by idoms, not idealisms. To much to soon, to much to late, better late than never, told you so, I knew it, so what, what problems, not me, us you him, her, etc. Its not our problems, wishing, taking forever, took so long, whats the problem, when, hurry, all the sayings and things just grind us to pieces you know, just sold with the beef market- Our enemies devour us here. Then we get these attacks that are to small and not powerful enough, we just get countered to hell. Always not enough you know, where were effective its just like football, and this big Hell No (2), thing, a bunch of everything we got thrown at the enemies forces, garbage trucks, carbombs, everything you could think of for a bunch of our ho-ya guys, Crazy, somehow it looks like its going to be more of a nuclear, type problem if so right, Bio, or something, Our Oceans fail us in keeping the enemy forces away... Our boarders cannot be secured, that would suck huh? Im probably wrong though so whatever.
I'm reading the book chicken hawk and my god those Sargent's were bastards and the civilian flight instructors were not much better
Being made a leader of a small group men and taking them to the mess seems easy right, wrong, not when you have NCOs blocking the route while shouting at you.
This video seems to be taken word for word from that book
The things I love from the US...
M1 garand, the jeep, p51 and the Huey
Actually our civilian primary and military advanced flight training instructors were the best. In fact my civilian flight instructor saved my life not only when learning to hover but by teaching high speed low level quick stops which served me well when as a new solo student pilot I was faced with a fast moving thunderstorm and elected to land off field rather than get lost somewhere over Texas. In the landing toward the storm cell, suddenly of course the wind reversed into a tail wind and I was suddenly eye level with a fence with the skids in the tall grass doing about 50 knots. I did a quick stop over the fence, landed on the other side, shut down and tied the blades and immediately got drenched. He’d saved my life and their training many times after that. The instructors were the best!
Ustica
narated by han solo :D
I was wondering if that was him lol nice, he's admired by many for being one of the best pilots. No lie; not anything to do with Han Solo, he is a great pilot.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppp
I'm so glad Harrison Ford refused to serve in Vietnam.
Thanks